348 Mr. Kirby's Descriptions of 



tatus : punctis distinctis, ante scutellum lineolA ex- 

 aratus. Pedes rufi : coxis femorum tiochanteribus tar- 

 sisque nigris. Colcoptru oblonga, striata, ex flavescente 

 cinerea, qui color ex pilis decunibentibus exoritur : vittii 

 intermedin rect^ lat^ villoso-albida, qiiaj tamen ad 

 apicem baud attingit, in utroqueelytronotanda; margo 

 itidein lateralis paululCim albescit. 



Obs. — Ptmcta et lineola thoracica nisi pilis ahrasis vix facile conspi- 

 cienda. 



This species very much resembles A. melanopian [Linn. Trans. 

 ix. 19- 2), which it should follow; but the rostrum is thicker, the 

 first joint only of the antennae is rufous, the trunk is proportionally 

 wider, the thighs are entirely rufous, the very extremity of the 

 base only excepted, the hip-joints are black, and the elytra, instead 

 of a narrow oblique streak, have a broad straight stripe of white, 

 which runs nearly to the end. 



63. APION L^VICOLLE. 



A. atrum glabrum, fronte sulcata, femoribus tcstaceis, trunco 

 laeviusculo, coleoptris globoso-ovatis gibbis. 



Long. Corp. Ij lin. 



Habitat in Anglic. In Cantio a nobis bis lectum sestate hujus 

 (1809) anni. Miis. nostr. 



DESCR. CORPUS atrum, nitidum, glabrum. 



Caput vix punctatum, inter oculos sulcatum : sulculis 

 circiter tribus. Ixostrum ferfe mediocre, crassiusculum, 

 in medio paululiim incrassatum, obsoletiiis ruguloso- 

 punctatum. AntenncE mediocres, paulo pone medium 

 rostro insidentes. 



Truncus 



